[email protected] wrote: > Does anyone have maps, or know the locations of the following > slave plantations in Lodi/Jefferson, Marion Co., TX, 1850? > > Royal F. Lockett's Plantation If you look at a map of Marion County, US Hwy 59 becomes a stright north to south line just before it crosses the Marion/Cass Co line. Just as it begins this straight stretch, the Royal Lockett land lies on the west side of the highway. The houseplace is down a county road, I'm sorry but I don't know that road number. Further down that same county road is Lockett Cemetery, a beautiful little family cemetery. As was the tradition of that time, the Lockett family and friends were buried inside the fence with marked graves, the slaves were buried outside the fence in unmarked graves. Insterestingly enough there is a Union soldier buried in Lockett Cemetery. As the story goes, the soldier was sick and/or wounded and trying to walk back north. (My guess is that this would have been following the Battle of Mansfield over in the edge of Louisiana.) Anyway, someone brought him to the Lockett home, where the family tended to him. The soldier died and, despite protests, the Locketts buried him in their family cemetery, but outside the fence - on the SOUTH side of the cemetery. A few years ago, when the cemetery fence was updated, they did include this grave in the cemetery. The soldier's name, if it was known at the time, was not recorded and is not remembered. > Anyone willing to share information on these slave plantations > in or around Lodi/Jefferson, Marion Co., TX, circa 1850? > OR share information on any other slave plantations > in this area of TX? I have not information on slaves and/or slave holders in Marion Co; however, I am in the process of digging out some of the same information in Panola Co, the second county south of Marion Co. This data is mainly found in two places: In the deed records you will find Bills of Sale, Mortgages and Gift Deeds that list slaves. Probate proceedings also list the names. In all slave transactions the information gives first name, approximate age and color (dark, light, yellow, copper, mulatto, etc.). In some instances it will list a adult female and one or more children, then state that those are the children of the adult female. It's painstaking work, but you can take the list of slave names and look for them in the marriage records after 1865 and on the 1870 census and piece together what surnames the individuals took after emancipation. In one instance where I had the names of an adult male, an adult female and several children being sold by one Rutledge to another Rutledge, I discovered that same family unit on the 1870 Census and found they took the surname Gray and still have many descendants in Panola Co. Marylee W. Knight